The Best New Games of September 2025

By Endless Mode Staff | October 1, 2025 | 5:26pm

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September’s done, but Endless Mode isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet—at least to its games, which were, for our money, the only good things about September. Join us as we look back on the best new games that came out in September 2025, listed in alphabetical order. They’re all worth a spin on whatever gaming device you might fancy.

Baby Steps

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To me, great art is totally absorbing. I know I’ve seen an important film when I forget I have to pee during it. Despite its demand for patience from players systematically conditioned to be inpatient, Baby Steps is engrossing. This is in part due to its relentless humor, the unexpected depth of its narrative, and its absolutely brilliant soundtrack (my partner jokes that the music always starts up at the exact right moment to piss you off). But most of all, Baby Steps is a fantastic game because it does not demand anything of you; rather, it invites you to demand things from yourself.—Bee Wertheimer

Blippo+

The art-damaged channel-surfing sim Blippo+ is almost always absurd and fundamentally ridiculous. It all comes together as a surprisingly earnest homage to a long-dead way of consuming media, though. And in its brevity—I’ve never pulled out a stop watch, but I don’t think its average show lasts even two minutes—it also recalls the bite-sized bursts of content that people consume today. Its proudly low production values are still higher than most TikToks or YouTube clips, but Blippo+ is absolutely in conversation with the internet’s quick hit approach to video. So even if you think it’s more depressing than inspiring to wistfully remember the utter aimlessness and time wasting of hitting buttons on a remote control for hours on end in the ‘80s and ‘90s, you might still be able to handle the all-killer, no-filler approach found in Blippo+’s most important shows.—Garrett Martin

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

The greatest Final Fantasy ever has only grown more relevant since its original release, as inequality and blatant prejudice have both increased exponentially since 1997. Seriously, they might as well slap a MAGA cap on Agarth—Tactics’ most contemptible foe would be one of Trump’s top advisors today. This two-pronged rerelease couples a lightly modernized update with a largely untouched recreation of the original Playstation game; the former avoids a lot of the common pratfalls of remakes, and is eminently playable, but there’s also much to be said about experiencing a game as close to its original presentation as possible. Either way you’re set here. Tactics wasn’t the first tactical RPG, and maybe isn’t even the best, but no other Final Fantasy can match its epic scope or rich storytelling.—Garrett Martin

Hades II

Melinoë comes from a broken home—literally. The daughter of Hades and Persephone, and younger sister of Zagreus, lives in a tent in the woods because the god of time, Chronos, ransacked their house during a war on her extended family—and maybe kind of killed her dad? Hey, we’ve all been there. It’s unclear at first what’s happened to her brother and parents, who players might remember from 2020’s excellent Hades, but suffice to say they’re out of the picture. And so, naturally, Melinoë wants revenge. That’s the foundation for Supergiant’s first sequel, Hades II, a game that attempts to do so much more than Hades did and largely pulls it off. Supergiant’s greatest strength remains its narrative excellence, though, and the writing and story-telling in Hades II is unsurprisingly top-notch.—Garrett Martin

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong’s September release brought an end to years of fervent online speculation that succeeded at both drawing even more attention to the original game and annoying everyone else who wasn’t interested in the process. So, how does this game, which became so unexpectedly big, square up against even larger expectations? Silksong isn’t a reinvention of what came before, but a product of careful honing, delivering nearly everything great about its predecessor but with a more confident, sure hand. Its platforming is lithe and acrobatic, its world design is sprawling and enticing, and its all delivered via a cogent setting meant to communicate the oppressive reach of an unchallenged theocracy. Because like its central punitive church, this game sort of hates you. While its steep difficulty set off a whole bunch of discourse and understandably alienated some, for those interested in meeting its challenges, the rewards are immense.—Elijah Gonzalez

Silent Hill f

Even with a major love-or-hate-it plotting choice and the fact that the game probably features too much swinging a lead pipe at various freaks, Silent Hill f also embodies just about everything that defines the Silent Hill series at its best: an uncanny setting full of unsettling people, a hallucinatory soundtrack that sucks you into this distorted world, and lots of fog—literally and in how truths are obfuscated. It’s both raw and surprisingly empathetic towards its lead. It’s desperately about something, but still wants to make you jump out of your seat when a long-haired monster lurches from the shadows to stab you with a rusty knife. In short, it’s Silent Hill, through and through.—Elijah Gonzalez

Wanderstars

Paper Castle’s RPG Wanderstars is not simply a good homage to older anime—it’s a great one that understands exactly what was good and worth resurfacing from the period of anime it’s quoting, while also confidently realizing a unique story full of heart and comedy that’s bolstered by its word-based combat system. It knows what lessons to learn from the past. It recognizes what’s good about its inspirations and what to leave behind, while ensuring its unique personality shines throughout its entire runtime. At every step in the journey, I was excited to see what mess Ringo and Wolfe would find themselves in; I knew that, regardless of what was waiting for them, an adventure worthy of the works that inspired it was about to unfold.—Wallace Truesdale